Edwin Aldrin inspects the footpad of the Lunar Module "Eagle" after it landed gently on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, at 4:17 p.m EDT. The footpad sank into the soil only about two inches. In the weak lunar gravity, the astronauts weighed only one-sixth of their weight on Earth.
Official NASA Photograph
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